[ScottBurson]

Very interesting post.

For most of us, I'm sure writing such an email would take the kind of effort and consideration you describe. (It would probably take me a week.)

But I wouldn't be surprised if Jobs spent so much of his time negotiating and was so talented at it that he could pretty much just dash something like that off -- with every detail right.

[larrys]

Side suggestion for you. You are using bountyoss.com for what you do, I strongly suggest you lock up both bountyboss.com and bountyos.com as well. (bountybos.com and bontyos.com might also be a good idea but the other two definitely.)

[ScottBurson]

Thanks for the suggestion, but I don't think I understand. You really think those are likelier typos than, say, "buontyoss.com"? Where does one stop? (I do have "bounteoss.com".)

In any case, the site has had $0.00 in revenue to date. I don't think protecting variations on the domain name is my biggest problem :-)

[larrys]

bounteoss.com is good.

No hard and fast rule where you stop. In general the traffic counts more than the revenue (other than you need money to do the variations). The more people typing in the more people likely to typo. Other thing is not even typos it's visually what somebody sees and then types. For example for some reason my brain thinks "boss" so I am likely to type that. That's just me. Personally I like "bountyboss" as well for some reason. It rolls off your tongue (and that's important btw.)

I point out simply because you don't want to wait until it's to late (and of course I have no idea where you are at in this project so the advice could also apply to someone with more traction! Good luck it looks nice.).